Marc Ribot - Map of a Blue City (2025) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

When she was a child and he a young father, Marc Ribot’s daughter drew a map of a city in deep, rich, vivid blue. When he praised her blue map, she corrected him: It's not a blue map, but a map of a blue city. That distinction stuck with him and eventually inspired a curious song called “Map of a Blue City.”

Map of a Blue City ruminates on what it means to be lost—the confusion and fear, of course, but also the excitement of so many undreamt-of possibilities. Its history is an odd map of its own, full of false starts, blind alleys, dead ends, and one inconceivable tragedy, all leading to what may be his definitive statement as an instrumentalist, as a songwriter, and even as a singer. While it’s not a singer-songwriter album, it is his first to center his plaintive, wise voice quite so prominently.

TRACKLIST

1. Marc Ribot - Elizabeth
2. Marc Ribot - For Celia
3. Marc Ribot - Say My Name
4. Marc Ribot - Daddy's Trip to Brazil
5. Marc Ribot - Map of a Blue City
6. Marc Ribot - Death of a Narcissist
7. Marc Ribot - When the World's on Fire
8. Marc Ribot - Sometime Jailhouse Blues
9. Marc Ribot - “Optimism of the Spirit”



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